Hey everybody, this was my last round game in a local chess tournament. I'm usually not terribly confident in the Sicilian as White but I think I played pretty solidly here and I think it was worth posting because of the positional themes of securing outposts and pressuring backward pawns. Throw on the top of that the conflict of 2 knights vs 2 bishops and the fact that the guy with the bishops was called Bishop and you have the makings of a memorable chess excursion.

I don't have access to my engines at the moment so maybe if anybody can see any haymaker that I cant they can kindly point it out!

Nice and patient game.

But to be honest I think you misplayed the opening a bit, and so did your opponent.

After 6. Nf5 black should be able to equalize with 6...d5!

Instead you should probably play 6.Ndb5 going into Sveshnikov, but now that your opponent also "misplayed" you had a very pleasant game with nice control over the d5 square, with an incredibly strong knight guarding some keysquares in black's camp.

What color are you??

To JKnight, Nf5 is less common but still fine. ...d5 as you suggested is the main move but White still has resources. There's some interesting tactical opportunities potentially. I don't enjoy the Sveshnikov actually so I avoid it. If you have any ideas about how I misplayed this line of the Sicilian I'm all ears.

Boymaster, I'm playing White here.

Here's what I saw: 

1.I don't see the point of 21.g3. h4 is simply parried by Bh3. You just gave him a tempo to start an attack after Bh3 and f5.

2.After that, I can't see any more improvements. You had a good knight on d5 and an attack on the queenside.